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Question Index

Browser Insanity

What is the The Simplest Effective Browser Sniffer?

Why do Netscape and IE display browser text and spacing differently?

Why do the padding and margin styles work differently on IE and Netscape?

Why does anyone still hang onto such dinosaurs as IE 4+ or Netscape 4+? (Since you can get the recent versions of these browsers free on the Net!)

Here's Netscape direct: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/

Here's Firefox direct: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Here's IE direct: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp

Why shouldn’t I get one of those long JavaScript routines off the Net that will force sites to display Netscape and IE the same, since they don’t otherwise?

Why doesn’t onMouseMove work from the body tag in Netscape?

Why doesn’t onKeyPress work from the body tag in Netscape?

Why does Netscape not handle more events with event handlers—like IE—rather than making us "capture" them the hard way?

NotePad sucks, won't load big files, can't do ctrl f, no macros. What's better?

How can I get a decent text editor to work right from IE?

What’s a decent Word-to-HTML converter? Office 2000 and later versions all suck; they have so much junk in the file after conversion it’s nothing short of a Microsoft nightmare!

Why does using the document.write method after opening a window create a decent new page in both browsers, but then in Netscape clicking a link in that new window loads the parent window into the new little window?

How do I achieve cross-browser compatibility?

Why should we encourage browser owners to update to W3C DOM-capable versions ASAP?

Where can I get help with the IE Box Model Display Bug that's about box widths, borders, margins, and padding?

Which image formats should I use for which types of tasks, in order to maintain good display quality?

What's the main problem with using .png's, and is there decent support for them?

Why do the <UL> (unordered list) bullets go away when I put the list to the right of an image?

How do I achieve cross-browser compatibility with embedded videos?

JavaScript

Can I load an image from an if statement in the body?

How does BASIC compare with JavaScript?

Can I use an alert dialog for debugging and can it print the current value of a variable?

How can one dynamically rewrite nearly any HTML code on a page with just a simple JavaScript function?

If you’ve utilized a timing function with setTimeout but your routine does enough complicated things that timing gets thrown off, how can you get it back on track?

When is an "if" conditional best and when is "switch" best?

How can one use the onChange event handler to respond to various option choices in a drop-down list box?

What's the best way to clear the status bar?

What's the best way to display a message on the status bar?

What is javascript:void(0) and how is it used?

What are the CSS style properties that are the easiest to change using W3C DOM methods?

How can I change an element’s class using W3C DOM methods?

Can I run a function inside another function?

How can any number of elements with sequentially numbered id’s have their style properties adjusted with hardly any code overhead?

Can for loops be used to change style property values on a range of elements?

Why don't we include codes that keep old browsers away from what they cannot comprehend, as well as alternate text code for disabled?

How do I get some page objects to be in higher layers than others without having to play with z-indexes?

Where can I find a simple decimal-to-hexadecimal converter?

Can I call three functions and concatenate their return values into a string all in one variable assignment?

Performing event handling tests would seem to be a useless quest because button rollovers are traditionally handled by onMouseOver and onMouseOut, so what tests are needed?

What can I use for mouse coordinate reading?

How can I use the JavaScript eval() function for dealing with rollovers?

How can I make images enlarge when the mouse cursor hovers over them?

How can I make thumbnail images enlarge into the center of the screen when the mouse cursor hovers over them and also float there regardless of scrolling?

How can I make images enlarge off to the side when the mouse cursor hovers over them?

How can I make images enlarge above a row of thumbnails when the mouse cursor hovers over them?

How can I make images enlarge or be replaced when the mouse cursor hovers over them?

Dealing with the message "Click to activate and use this control" with ActiveX controls like Embed, Object, and Applet

Why doesn't innerHTML act consistently cross-browser or cross-platform?

Is DOM or innerHTML faster executing?

What are some tips for using the innerHTML property to script JavaScript for the various browsers?

What's the best way to preserve a variable between web pages?

What's the best way to keep one div stationary/still/locked while the page is being scrolled, in a cross-browser, cross-platform context?

What's the best way to utilize sounds in a cross-browser, cross-platform context?

Effective embedded sounds avoiding ActiveX

What's the best way to browser-sniff (detection) in a cross-browser, cross-platform context?

Printing all or part of a page without the need for printer-friendly pages

What's the best way to deal with the message Click to activate and use this control with ActiveX controls like Embed, Object, and Applet?

BASIC vs JavaScript

Load Image from If Statement

Global Variables or Parameter Passing?

What Are Fifteen Simple Methods of Doing Web-Page Pop-ups?

What is The CSS Height and Width Properties Pop-up Method?

What is The IE createPopup Pop-up Method?

What is The Window Pop-up Method?

What is The CSS Color Properties Pop-up Method?

What is The Banner Animator Pop-up Method?

What is The CSS Opacity Property Pop-up Method?

What is The setTimeout Pop-up Method?

What is The DOM setAttribute Pop-up Method?

What is The DOM appendChild Pop-up Method?

What is The CSS Z-index Property Pop-up Method?

What is The CSS Visibility Property Pop-up Method?

What is The Hide Div Outside Page Area Pop-up Method?

What is The CSS Display Property Pop-up Method?

What is The Art of Using an Overlay Mask with Your Pop-up Method?

Enlarge Only One Div at a Time

Security levels from Javascript and PHP input filtering

What is a regular expression general input validator?

What is a regular expression user name validator?

What is a regular expression password validator?

What is a regular expression email validator?

What is a regular expression URL validator?

How can I convert a Javascript array to a PHP array?

How can I Dynamically Create Input Boxes with Validation?

How do I use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in PHP and JavaScript to convert strings and arrays from PHP to JavaScript?

How do you Convert PHP String to JavaScript String?

How do you do PHP-to-JavaScript String Conversion with No JSON?

How do you Post a JavaScript Array to a PHP Array?

How do you send a value to PHP using JavaScript?

How can I add form input boxes dynamically with a loop?

What is the PSB demo JavaScript code?

How do I add html to a web page with JavaScript, PHP or ssi includes?

How do I add html to a web page with JavaScript includes?

How can I get an array whose name is in a different array?

Code for getting an array whose name is in a different array

Animation

What is path animation and how does one do it?

How can I make objects appear and disappear even if they're moving at the time?

How can I simulate gravity with animation?

How can I simulate a bouncing ball?

How do I adjust for different screen edge coordinates in Netscape and IE?

How can I simulate gradual size increases of divs?

How can I coax a web page object to jump away whenever visitors come near it with their mice?

How can I create an animation whereby a mouse click can toggle the action on/off, back/forth, left/right, big/small, etc.?

Why won't slow object property value incrementing result in slow div box changes if you fail to use the JavaScript timing function, or if you change the values in loops rather than in conditionals? Even though one changes the width incrementally, the div change doesn’t kick in until the loop is done. Why?

How does one simulate a slow color change that looks like a curtain being drawn?

How can I get an object to move in a random direction?

What is a cheap graphics software package with which I can create animated gifs, and how do I use it?

What is a free animated gif editor I can use to change the number of repeats, the frame timing, sequence, etc.?

How can I make animated gifs slowly disappear and reappear while animating?

What are the best rules to follow with regards to the use of animated gifs?

Buttons and Menus

Can I make rollover buttons that use CSS only?

What's the best way to make good, dynamic, efficient, robust, effective rollover buttons and menus?

How can I make smooth popup menus?

How can one make popup menus that use NEITHER onMouseOver nor onMouseOut?

What different types of CSS style modification options are there for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use opacity for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use visibility for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use layers for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use background color for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use image source replacement for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use moving buttons for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use display for dealing with rollovers?

How can I use slow opacity for dealing with rollovers?

Once a text link in a div is visited, an annoying dotted enclosure line will be bestowed on the text link to signify visited; how can I avoid this?

Why can't I use concatenated strings to build up a variable to use as an image source name?

How can I use the JavaScript eval() function for dealing with rollovers?

Am I permitted to use moving buttons to negative, off-screen coordinates for hiding them while dealing with rollovers?

What is the main liability of using the display property style with rollovers?

Is there an onMouseOut bug in all the browsers?

Could a simple WYSIWYG web page editor such as Cool Page (version 2.72) create menus and rollovers—even popups?

What are onMouseMove and mouse coordinate parameter checking and why are they vital tools for menu and button JavaScript?

What's this onCoordsOut invention of ours that we're saying should be in all the browsers?

What are the benefits of our onCoordsOut idea?

How can I make smooth, efficient popup menus that can use any popup menu image I create?

How can I make smooth, efficient popup menus that need no images either for buttons or popup boxes, so they need no load time?

How can I make smooth, efficient popup menus that are on the side of my page, not the top?

How can I utilize merely changing a class to make a button image change to a different image?

Must I always preload images?

How can I create a div button that changes to a different color (16,000,000+ possibilities) every time it's clicked?

How can I use the hover pseudo-class with a linked div button so that it changes (when your mouse is on it) from an undepressed button to a depressed button, but with no images involved?

CSS and HTML

Where can I get help with the IE Box Model Display Bug that's about box widths, borders, margins, and padding?

Can I make rollover buttons that use CSS only?

What is the difference between rules, selectors, values and properties?

How would we contrast a professionally designed website with a teaching site with regards to the use of embedded, inline or style sheet CSS?

What are the CSS style properties that are the easiest to change using W3C DOM methods?

Are you allowed to have containers (like div and span) inside containers and ids inside containers with different ids?

What CSS styling technique is needed to keep the cursor an arrow rather than a text cursor when the mouse is over buttons with text but no link?

What are collapsing margins and why doesn't someone help the poor things?

Can you use borders around inline elements like <i> tags?

What are the rules for how one uses font shorthand?

What are the best ways to get fancy borders to work?

What are the best ways to replace bullets or other list markers with your own images?

What are the best ways to do div box positioning with absolute and relative positioning?

How can I tell what will overlap what in absolute positioning?

What are all these nutty terms: context box, relative, fixed, static, absolute, inherited, parents, ancestor, children, siblings, ems, normal flow, and nested?

How can I position several page elements inside another larger element?

Why in the world is column layout such a pain in the tail in CSS; why is there no Column property?

What are some ways to have your web page jump focus to a certain spot on a page?

What are the main choices I have when it comes to CSS page layout?

What is the best way to deal with footers when it comes to CSS page layout?

What is reputed to be quite a good strategy when it comes to 2-column CSS page layout?

What is reputed to be quite a good strategy when it comes to 3-column CSS page layout?

What is reputed to be a classic when it comes to 3-column CSS page layout?

Is there a way to base column layout on the margin property when it comes to CSS page layout?

Is there a way to base column layout on the left property when it comes to CSS page layout?

Is there a way to base column layout on the padding property when it comes to CSS page layout?

Is there a way to base column layout on the relative positioning property value when it comes to CSS page layout?

Is there a way to base column layout on nested divs when it comes to CSS page layout?

Is there a way to base column layout on the float property when it comes to CSS page layout?

Is there a bug in the float property when it comes to Netscape CSS page layout?

Is there a way to have text flow around pictures, sidebar text, and pull-quotes when it comes to CSS page layout?

How can I make layouts work right when people use the Text Size option on the View menu in IE or the Text Zoom option in Netscape to enlarge their text size?

How can I get the Text Size option on the View menu in IE to function correctly to enlarge text size (it seems broken)?

What is the better text size unit for site design, pixels or ems?

Why am I sometimes getting overlaps in column paragraphs vertical to one another?

Why does the width increase on some columns until they overlap their neighbors when you test text enlarging for accessibility?

How do I achieve cross-browser compatibility with embedded videos?

Why are MPEG 1 files best for embedded videos?

What's the very best way to do fixed positioning so backgrounds and menus stay put?

What is the easiest way to do thumbnail image enlargement windows?

What is the Gif Pop-up Method?

What is the Video Pop-up Method?

How do I add html to a web page with JavaScript, PHP or ssi includes?

How do I add html to a web page with SSI includes?

PHP

How do you put PHP variables in URL and link text?

What is PHP Code for Multiple PSB Hosts?

What is Registration PHP Code for Multiple PSB Hosts?

What is Registration PHP Code for Multiple PSB Hosts with a captcha?

What is Administrator-PHP-Code-for-Multiple-PSB-Hosts?

What's the PHP code for a script for a PSB?

What's the PHP code for a script for PSB updating?

What's the PHP code for a script if you forgot your user name?

What's the PHP code for a script if you forgot your password?

What's the PHP code for a script to change a member's email address?

What's the PHP code for a script to connect to a MySQL database?

What's the PHP code for a script to close a member's account?

What's the PHP code for a script to edit group member?

What's the PHP code for a script to add group member?

What's the PHP code for a script to reset a MySQL table's data to its original?

What's the PHP code for a script to edit a MySQL table's data?

What's the PHP code for a script to change a username?

What's the PHP code for a script to change a password?

What's the PHP code for a script to delete group member?

What's the PHP code for a script to view membership data?

What's the PHP code for a script to change an administrator's password?

What's the PHP code for a script to delete logout?

What's the PHP code for a script to login?

Security levels from Javascript and PHP input filtering

Security levels and PHP

How can I convert a Javascript array to a PHP array?

What is PHP Code to Prevent Duplicate Data Input - Like User Names or Members?

What is PHP Code for PSB Status Update for Multiple PSB Hosts?

How do I sort 1 PHP array and have the other arrays sort in parallel to how the first array sorts?

How do I use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in PHP and JavaScript to convert strings and arrays from PHP to JavaScript?

How do you do PHP-to-JavaScript String Conversion with No JSON?

How do you Convert PHP String to JavaScript String?

How do you Post a JavaScript Array to a PHP Array?

How do you send a value to PHP using JavaScript?

How do I add html to a web page with JavaScript, PHP or ssi includes?

How do I add html to a web page with PHP includes?

Info on unwanted primary field auto-sorting

More discussion on unwanted primary field auto-sorting

How can I do instant article formatting, paragraph formatting, or text formatting with radio buttons?

How can I do instant article font size, font family, and paragraph formatting with radio buttons?

How can I create query string IDs in links with one PHP array and related link text with another PHP array?

How can I create custom HTML tags that are safer for MySQL databases?

Info on using custom HTML tags that are safer for MySQL databases

Info on preventing duplicate titles in a MySQL database by checking the titles field against a title input form

How can I edit text from MySQL databases by using a textarea box?

How can I highlight matched search terms in a MySQL database table search?

How can I search using not only exact phrase matching but also a series of words to match in a MySQL database table search?

Info on using the PHP explode() function

Info on using the PHP count() function

How can I search through long strings for matches using the SELECT FROM WHERE LIKE SQL keywords?

How can I turn the Returns/Enters in user input into nicely formated paragraphs that either indent, or skip a line, or both?

How can I safely allow users to input HTML links without the danger of tags?

How can I safely allow users to input embedded videos without the danger of tags?

How can I safely allow users to input embedded audio sounds without the danger of tags?

How can I safely allow users to input HTML email "mailto" links without the danger of tags?

How can I safely delete records in a MySQL table?

What's the code for an Ajax and PHP Based Input Filter?

Ajax and PHP Based Insult Auto-Completer

How can I use PHP and MySQL for Checking Key Codes to Allow Update to a New Software App Version?

Article Content Management System

Content Management System Introduction

Content Management System—Article Navigation

Content Management System—Article Indexing

Content Management System—Article Editing

Content Management System—Article Searching

Content Management System—Article Deleting

Content Management System—Article Writing

Content Management System—Article Reading

What are the terms of use for our Article Content Management System?

Website Directory Content Management System

Website Directory—Delete Category

Website Directory—Delete URL

Website Directory—Add URL

Website Directory—Add Category

Website Directory—Directory Creating

Website Directory-View by Category (Demo Code)

Website Directory—View by URL (Demo Code)

Website Directory—View by Category (Demo)

Website Directory—View by URL (Demo)

Website Directory—View

Website Directory—View (Demo)

PHP based test of getting website info dynamically

PHP based test of getting website thumbnails dynamically

PHP based test of getting website info and thumbnails dynamically using one link per URL

PHP based test of getting website info and thumbnails dynamically using separate links per URL

PHP based test of getting website info dynamically using Ajax

PHP based test of getting website info dynamically using separate links per URL and Ajax

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test2.php: getting website thumbnails dynamically

test3.php: getting website info and thumbnails dynamically using one link per URL

test4.php: getting website info and thumbnails dynamically using separate links per URL

test5.php: getting website info dynamically using Ajax

test6.php: getting website info and thumbnails dynamically using separate links per URL and Ajax

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PSB demo

Social PSB demo

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PSB Licence Agreement

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Personal Status Boards (PSB™s)

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